2+ hour, 54+ min ago  (505+ words) A drug known only as compound X helped to remove the problematic proteins associated with Parkinson's disease from the brains of mice, and improved their balance and mobility Parkinson's occurs when nerve cells in the brain become depleted. This light…...

2+ hour, 53+ min ago  (670+ words) New Scientist Matthew Macfadyen and Elizabeth Banks star in The Miniature Wife Miniature people have been a staple of science fiction and fantasy going all the way back to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, and shrunken characters have taken the spotlight…...

5+ hour, 53+ min ago  (460+ words) The International Union for Conservation of Nature has updated the Red List status for three of Antarctica's most famous species after a dire assessment of their prospects under climate change Emperor penguins could go extinct by 2100 A third Antarctic species,…...

22+ hour, 53+ min ago  (768+ words) A decline in ancient megafauna in the Middle East coincided with a shift towards smaller, lighter toolkits in the archaeological record " though scientists are still in debate about why The changing abundance of prey animals may have forced early humans…...

5+ hour, 23+ min ago  (161+ words) New Scientist Today there are more than 8 billion humans on Earth. But according to a recent genetic study, there may have been a moment in our past when the entire human population dropped to just 1, 280 adults. That is a number…...

20+ hour, 53+ min ago  (1005+ words) A fresh and important book reveals the messy reality of our ever-mutating cells " and why the quest to defeat ageing is futile, says Michael Le Page Trillions of mutations in our cells may transform each of us every day Beyond…...

21+ hour, 54+ min ago  (513+ words) Feedback is delighted by the discovery of a very specific scientific sculpture park in China " and wonders if readers can top it Feedback is New Scientist's popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items…...

21+ hour, 50+ min ago  (175+ words) New Scientist From Peter Green, Southampton, UK Can species evolve fast enough to survive climate change? The answer is no! What has been observed by these researchers is an example of ecological genetics in action. The genetic polymorphism within the…...

21+ hour, 53+ min ago  (385+ words) There are numerous examples from history of this occuring, explain our readers Herman D'Hondt Sydney, Australia This is easy, as long as you accept that Earth is a rotating sphere. If you are standing at the equator, you move west…...

23+ hour, 53+ min ago  (433+ words) John Pendry is known for creating an invisibility cloak. Twenty years on, he has used the same principles to fashion an even more powerful kind of metamaterial that can teach us about the wild frontiers of physics But no, he…...